Hope that helps. I registered and everything because I wanted to try to help.

Hip and Lip … that’s how I called that in my article Timing Content Creation to Match Interest Peaks.

Low Interest Periods are perfect for covering keywords you normally would not write about … even pool, laptop and summer holidays

It can be horribly disheartening even when you know what to expect. But the best course of action really is to dig even deeper, go the extra mile you know/

Oh, you mean blogging-wise? heh.

Summer or national holidays where your audience plummets is an ideal time to do critical housekeeping stuff or move hosting, anything where there might be unavoidable disruption. You want this to happen with the least amount of audience. It’s never good to mess your audience around but if its inevitable its best to do it with a smaller audience of core loyalists rather than a big audience of first-timers.

If you do find things slow you might also build up additional content for the busy times when you are not going to have time to breathe. When I worked for a marketing agency we would often build projects for xmas in summer, there are things that take a long lead time, and search engine placement is no exception.

One thing to remember is while the other blogs in the niche are away sunning their bods you could be attracting new readers by maintaining momentum …